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Opus+

The new multimedia guiding system for unforgettable visitor experiences

It’s the latest addition to the Acoustiguide’s groundbreaking family of Opus multimedia guides. Opus+ features an enhanced, visitor-friendly interface and delivers content of any length. With its rugged, ergonomic design, Opus+ is ideal for museums, visitor centers and other public venues where reliability, flexibility and ease-of-use are what you need.

Opus+ can hold more than 500 hours of multilingual audio, multimedia content, and images. With its customizable keypad, high quality stereo sound, and ability to play video and animation, Opus+ can transform even the simplest visitor tour into a memorable adventure.

Charging the Opus+ player is easy with Acoustiguide’s Modular Charging Cabinet. Just place the player in any one of the cabinet’s nests. There are no fragile connectors to align, which means a smooth, easy and reliable operation.

Creating, delivering and updating content is simple, thanks to the back-end Content Management System. User-friendly features include the ability to activate location-based content. You can even synchronize the audio on the Opus+ with your exhibit’s in-gallery videos for a total immersive experience. The kind that Opus+ makes possible.

The Opus Content Manager, OCM™, is Acoustiguide's proprietary software package, designed and developed by our experienced software engineering team to offer clients full independence over the process of creating and updating an audio and multimedia tours for Opus devices.
The OCM™ is part of Acoustiguide's Opus audio & multimedia system launched in 2008. The system includes the Opus+™ and the Opus Click™ keypad-driven device, and the Opus Touch™ touchscreen device.
The OCM™ enables clients around the world to define, create, build and load Opus devices with the desired multimedia tour. From the most basic audio tour to the most sophisticated multimedia one, clients can include an unlimited number of items of any type, in an unlimited number of languages, all in a quick and intuitive manner.
The software runs on Windows-based PCs, and offers a friendly, easy to use interface.

Just a few, simple steps to a new tour:
Create the tour structure of your choice:

How long are your visitors spending at your site?
How long do your visitors listen to the audio tour for?
Which are the most/less listened to exhibits?
Are your site visitors listening to the deeper levels of the commentary?

Acoustiguide interpretive guides offer innovative software to allow clients to collect visitors usage statistics on how audio guide users are moving around the site and what information they are accessing. This collection of data is passive i.e. visitors are not required to interact with a survey.
This software gives an accurate, on-going and immediate feedback on how visitors are using the tour; it researches their visit duration, their language selection, investigates how long they listen at each particular point, and studies the popularity of different audio segments and more. The information on the visitor / audio tour interaction can be used by visitor service teams, for example to improve the audio tour service or services for foreign language speakers.
This data collection software can also be used in conjunction with interactive electronic questionnaires, another feature of our audio & multimedia guides, which can be used for a more direct analysis of the demographic profile of visitors and their feedback.

Automatic process with no human intervention

A valuable yet simple information and marketing tool

Reliable source of visitor feedback information

Enables better planning of existing and future exhibitions

Collected data is precise and accurate with no need for human data entry

Where are your visitors coming from?
How did they hear about the site?
How long are they staying around?
How are they appreciating the site and service?

Many of our clients are asking for our help gathering information about their visitors. You might want to use one of our guides' unique features – the ability to display questionnaires and collect visitors' responses automatically.
Visitor Surveys software can help organizations to gather valuable information about their visitors through the inclusion of a survey within an audio tour presented on the players. Acoustiguide can advise the organization on customizing the survey to their individual needs.

Electronic visitor surveys offer:

Cost effective market research

A quick and easy way to extract information from visitors

Full customization for individual needs

Demographic information on visitors

Feedback on the services the organization offers

A saving of staff time and resources

Reliable information, avoiding potential human error in data entry

Different surveys for different languages or other tours

Questions and answers in text and/or audio

A solution that is easy to implement

and more...

Clients can either collect and analyze the data themselves or alternatively, Acoustiguide can execute and provide the raw data in different formats (XLS, PPT, PDF...)

As a leader in technology innovation for the multimedia and interpretation space, Acoustiguide ensures that special applications and new features it develops dovetail with the advances it makes in creative content and handheld audio & multimedia delivery systems.

Our Opus series’ capabilities utilize advanced technologies to offer a host of new features that facilitate the creation of full, dynamic tours which, in turn, enrich visitors’ experience. These new features include customized user-interfaces, interactive games, specialized content, dedicated keys and much more.

Maps Orientation and Direction

Visitors can use the Opus device to explore a metropolitan area, or an outdoor environment such as a botanical garden, just as easily as they would use it indoors. This opens up possibilities for tours in locations that are difficult to guide visitors through, and where placing labels and signs is not possible.

Remote Activation

An advanced Auto-triggering feature offers the ability to automatically activate content relating to its location without pressing any keys or touching the screen. This could be an audio ‘Welcome’ message at the entrance to a site, information about a specific item or a prompt alerting visitors they are entering a different section of an exhibition.

Mobile Remote Activation

For sites where visitors are not allowed to wander on their own, the Mobile Remote activator allows group tour guides to trigger messages on their group members’ Opus devices while walking along a tour path. The triggered messages are always in the language pre-selected by each visitor. This allows one group tour guide to escort a large group of visitors who can enjoy the tour in their own language.

Interactive Games and Puzzles

Both educational and fun, these applications are a great way to engage your visitors, especially the younger ones.

Some examples include:

Memory games

Matching games

Changing an image by altering various details on the screen, such as size, color, background etc.

These and many other features we have created throughout the years were inspired by our client’s imaginative ideas. We have the experience and know-how necessary to help you create the visitor experience you envision. We would love to hear your ideas!

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Opus Click

Opus is a revolutionary series of compact and robust screen-based players, developed and designed specifically for on site interpretation of museums and visitor venues.

This ground-breaking series of guides ushers in a new world of interpretive possibilities for institutions that value sophisticated design and require rugged, easy to use players. With Opus, institutions can provide visitors access to various digital resources - video, images and animation on top of the traditional audio - in a platform catering exactly to the needs of their visitors.

The high-performance computing capabilities of Opus will amaze visitors accustomed to sophisticated graphic images and digital movies: its processing speed and memory capacity enable delivery of high resolution video files and the CD-quality sound that users of consumer technology demand.

The content manager is intuitive and flexible, allowing for simple additions and deletions of content, as well as more complex functions, like integration of timed audio with video and images.

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Opus Touch

Opus is a revolutionary series of compact and robust screen-based players, developed and designed specifically for on site interpretation of museums and visitor venues.

This ground-breaking series of guides ushers in a new world of interpretive possibilities for institutions that value sophisticated design and require rugged, easy to use players. With Opus, institutions can provide visitors access to various digital resources - video, images and animation on top of the traditional audio - in a platform catering exactly to the needs of their visitors.

The high-performance computing capabilities of Opus will amaze visitors accustomed to sophisticated graphic images and digital movies: its processing speed and memory capacity enable delivery of high resolution video files and the CD-quality sound that users of consumer technology demand.

The content manager is intuitive and flexible, allowing for simple additions and deletions of content, as well as more complex functions, like integration of timed audio with video and images.

One of the most advanced audio tour technology on the market today, Acoustiguide's exSite Premium offers superior sound quality, automatic infrared activation and video synchronization, onsite programming and data collection. It also has programmable soft-keys, integrated advanced software applications, and full compatibility with Acoustiguide's MyCollection system.

exSite Premium is part of the exclusive exSite line of wand players designed and manufactured by the Espro Acoustiguide Group. With up to 1GB memory, exSite audio tour system can hold over 250 hours of content to satisfy the most ambitious of institutions. The unit offers high-end CD-quality sound based on advanced audio processing technology which is delivered through a high fidelity speaker embedded in the wand-style unit that is most favored by museum visitors. Advanced features include IR activation and sophisticated survey and data collection capabilities.

The most advanced unit in our exSite line of wand players, the exSite Premium comes with four programmable soft keys for a variety of customized site applications to meet specific institutional needs. An example includes bookmarking, which complements our MyCollection system and enables visitors to download images of their favorite objects for on-demand catalogue and poster-printing in real time at the site.

Superior Sound and Capacity

CD quality stereo sound

Rich audio content integrating voice, music and sound effects

Each unit capable of delivering over 250 hours of multilingual audio content

Built-in high fidelity speaker

Can also be used with headphones or single ear-piece

Multiple ways to access content with tour menus and a choice of tour formats

Precise synchronization to external multimedia and Group Guiding systems

Programmable keypad

MyCollection/Bookmark capability

Data Collection (optional)

Electronic visitors surveys

Memory Capacity

Up to 1GB, gives up to 250 hours of high quality audio, including narration, music and effects

All languages, tour types, and content variations can be loaded on the same exSite Premium for maximum convenience

High Performance Soft Keypad

Up and down keys allow user to easily scroll through various menus and text on screen

Blue and yellow soft keys beneath the screen are programmable according to a site’s specific needs. These keys can be dedicated to advanced functions including bookmarking, “Yes/No” survey questions, etc.

Multiple Ways to Access Content

Direct Access – by pressing a number or by infrared auto triggering

Layering – guiding the visitor via audio and menus on the screen to access additional content

Guided Tour – allowing the site to guide and direct the visitor’s path, leading the visitor through a predetermined linear route.

Advised Tour – the ability to alternate between Direct Access and Guided Tours – the visitor can either follow audio or screen based recommendations or directly select items of interest

Data Collection
The exSite Premium system enables the collection and statistical analysis of data related to visitor usage patterns. It documents the visitors’ paths through the museum, recording visit duration, language selection, listening behavior and the popularity of different audio segments. This and other data can be categorized according to type and can be exported to external statistical systems for further analysis.

Visitor Surveys Via Electronic Questionnaires
exSite Premium’s software allows the site to collect visitor profiles through electronic questionnaires that are embedded within the unit’s audio program or LCD display. These interactive surveys may inquire about visitor demographics, membership and overall satisfaction.

exSite Classic is part of the exclusive exSite line of wand players designed and manufactured by the Espro Acoustiguide Group. With up to 1GB memory, the unit can hold over 250 hours of content to satisfy the most ambitious of institutions. The units offers high-end CD-quality sound based on advanced audio processing technology which is delivered through a high fidelity speaker embedded in the wand-style unit that is most favored by museum visitors. Advanced features include IR activation and sophisticated survey and data collection capabilities.

Superior Sound and Capacity

CD quality stereo sound

Rich audio content integrating voice, music and sound effects

Each unit capable of delivering over 250 hours of multilingual audio content

Built-in high fidelity speaker

Can also be used with headphones or single ear-piece

Multiple ways to access content with tour menus and a choice of tour formats

Precise synchronization to external multimedia and Group Guiding systems

Programmable keypad

MyCollection/Bookmark capability

Data Collection (optional)

Electronic visitors surveys

Memory Capacity

Up to 1GB, gives up to 250 hours of high quality audio, including narration, music and effects

All languages, tour types, and content variations can be loaded on the same exSite Classic for maximum convenience

High Performance Soft Keypad

Up and down keys allow user to easily scroll through various menus and text on screen

Blue and yellow soft keys beneath the screen are programmable according to a site’s specific needs. These keys can be dedicated to advanced functions including bookmarking, “Yes/No” survey questions, etc.

Multiple Ways to Access Content

Direct Access – by pressing a number or by infrared auto triggering

Layering – guiding the visitor via audio and menus on the screen to access additional content

Guided Tour – allowing the site to guide and direct the visitor’s path, leading the visitor through a predetermined linear route.

Advised Tour – the ability to alternate between Direct Access and Guided Tours – the visitor can either follow audio or screen based recommendations or directly select items of interest

Data Collection
The exSite Classic system enables the collection and statistical analysis of data related to visitor usage patterns. It documents the visitors’ paths through the museum, recording visit duration, language selection, listening behavior and the popularity of different audio segments. This and other data can be categorized according to type and can be exported to external statistical systems for further analysis.

Visitor Surveys Via Electronic QuestionnairesexSite Classic’s software allows the site to collect visitor profiles through electronic questionnaires that are embedded within the unit’s audio program or LCD display. These interactive surveys may inquire about visitor demographics, membership and overall satisfaction.